Uphill Battle said:
Hey random.
Thanks for replying. As to your 2nd part, isn't quoting "Majority rules" technically an error in logic?
It's not so much a "majority rules" argument as pointing out that consensus has been formed based on the evidence and that Christian geologists (I assume that 99% has quite a few Christian scientists) also agree with the evidence. Basically, RichardT thinks (from what I understand) that there is possibly a conspiracy or a bias such that only evolutionary views are accepted.
I first proved him wrong by showing that Christian geologists, long before the Theory of Evolution, disproved the Global Flood. For his second point that perhap science has improved, and early geologists were wrong, I point out that even now, less geologists accept a Global Flood with the new advances in science.
However, like you said, "major rules" argument doesn't work, including in science. Before Einstein, physicists all thought Newton was the bees knees. That changed rather quickly, and we even learned that the Law of Universal Gravitation was incorrect under certain conditions.
That said, based on the current scientific evidence, there is no sign that a Global Flood occurred on the Earth. Not only that, the idea was falsified. This means that we would have to make some sort of super discovery to bring it back. It would be the equivalent of finding out that the Earth was flat (which was also falsified). I hope that makes sense.
Finally, about the Flat Earth, I love to point this out, but back in the ancient days, the Greeks knew that the Earth wasn't flat. In fact, one Greek (can't remember his name) even calculated the circumference of the Earth.